A contract is extinguished by its rescission.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1688
Rescission
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972)
Most recently applied in MRFranchise, Inc. & Mike Rafipoor v. P Stratford Insurance Company (November 2024)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.